Wait until he learns about the word smartphone.
The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.
Submitted 1 year ago by Maimas2@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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sonovebitch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m just glad the term “talkies” didn’t catch on.
livus@kbin.social 1 year ago
You think that's bad, Lumiere's father in law wanted him to call the new invention "Domitor" instead of "Cinema".
srecko@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Or in alternate reallity: “You think that’s bad, Lumiere wanted to call the new invention “Cinema” before his father in law reasoned with him to call it “Domitor”.”
Pietson@kbin.social 1 year ago
Idk that sounds kinda badass
CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 1 year ago
Just wait for when “walkies” really take off with VR movies
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I see what you did there, but I would probably not recommend walking around while watching a movie in VR.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It was just kind of a trend in the twenties to add the suffix “ie” to anything when something new was invented
livus@kbin.social 1 year ago
We're not much better, we've had tends for -r and -io.
Movr, movios.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Don’t forget dropping the last vowel! I wonder what they spend their vowel savings on…
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Everyone still “video tapes” everything on their phones.
Globulart@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do they…?
I’ll be honest, I haven’t heard anyone say that ever when using a phone.
Maybe “videos” as a verb but generally “records” in my experience
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Imagine if the guy who named movies with sound talkies also named movies… wait … oh no…
ultratiem@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I find things that carry over despite having little to do with the original. Tape for example. We were saying that for a while when digital recorders and cameras on phones could do video.
Same with the disk icon. Still used for save despite most millennials now having no idea what the thing is.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Most millenials grew up with floppy disks. You’re thinking of Gen Z and Gen Alpha
Pantherina@feddit.de 1 year ago
I know what it is but no idea how it works. I grew up with cassettes for music and CDs
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 year ago
You should take longer showers so that you can think a bit more.
Snapperhead@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bird is the word
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
What is the word movie?
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 1 year ago
It’s a word movie, how do you not know this? /s
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
“movie”, the word.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Maybe this one
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean virtually all the hardware our culture runs on is less than 100 years old.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
And a good chunk of our buildings, as well.
Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe in America. I live in the UK and my house is 150 years old. I grew up in one that’s nearly 300 years old.
WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So am I!